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George Eliot's heroine faces her Great Temptation

Fiona Shaw looks at the final, problematic section of George Eliot's work where her main character faces her Great Temptation.

21 October 2015

2 minutes

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The Secret Life of Books—Series 2, The Mill on the Floss

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